Autodidacticism

Heutagogy

Questions

• How do I help students become autodidacts, as a class?
  • Start themselves
  • Ask each other questions
  • Teach each other
  • Answer their own questions

Related Resources

Sugata Mitra

• Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education (TED Talk)
• One on One: Sugata Mitra, 2013 TED Prize Winner (NYTimes)
• Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud (TED Talk)
• Let Learning Happen - Sugata Mitra at European Zeitgeist 2011
• The role of coaching: The Granny Cloud
• Hacking at Education: TED, Technology Entrepreneurship, Uncollege, and the Hole in the Wall
• Sugata Mitra: Slum chic? 7 reasons for doubt

The Self-Directed Learning Handbook: Challenging Adolescent Students to Excel by Maurice Gibbons

• Thinking Space - The Self-Directed Learning Handbook

William Kamkwamba, Kelvin Doe, Today's Learners, Change the World in 5 Minutes - Everyday at School,
Peeragogy & http://peeragogy.net
Caine's Arcade
Are they Students or are they Learners? by David Warlick
Technology to Empower SDL from the Web by Kirill Kireyev

• How do we address this paradox? "Self-directed learners face a sensemaking paradox: they must employ deep-level thinking skills in order to process information sources meaningfully, but they often lack the requisite domain knowledge needed to deeply analyze information sources and to successfully integrate incoming information with their own existing knowledge."
• Toward the end of their projects, how do students deal with the "curse of knowledge"?